GRE Word List
AMALGAM
a mixture of different elements
The meaning of the word amalgam is a mixture of different elements.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| modulate | to tune to a key or pitch |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| confidence | a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances |
| antiquated | outmoded or discredited by reason of age : old and no longer useful, popular, or accepted |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| polyglot | one who is polyglot |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| dint | force |